1 . A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful ________, and knowing her husband could ________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the ________, her husband told her how ________ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He ________ her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and ________ a Bible (圣经). ________, she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible?” She was so ________ that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very ________ in business. She owned two large companies. She ________ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to ________ him. But before she could, she ________ a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to come back and ________ things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness ________ her heart. She saw the still new ________, just as she had left it years before. With ________, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring ________ from the Bible to the floor and a ________ could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LOVE YOU ALWAYS”.

________ your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the ________.

3 . I remember when I was young, people often asked me, “What are you going to be when you grow up?”

It _________ being a cowboy or some super hero. Later it was a fireman, a policeman, a lawyer. As I grew older, my dreams for the future _________. When I was in college, I set my heart on becoming a (n) _________ like my father. _________ I studied and prepared for that. I reached the _________ in the end and I was teaching _________ full-time for much of my adult life. However, there is a “thief” that goes around stealing our _________. Sometimes, the thief will come as a parent, or a friend, but the _________ thief is usually _________.

We find ourselves just about reaching the top, and a “small” __________ inside says, “You’ll never make __________”. “You __________ possibly do this.” On and on, the “small” voice predicts our failure. Failure, __________ is one of the most important tools we have, may teach us valuable __________. When we learn these lessons well, we are ready __________ success.

I always tell my children that you are __________ to do anything that your heart desires. Remember the saying, “Nothing is __________ for a willing heart.” There are __________ “overnight” successes, but with determination, they will come. Imagine __________ a life you dream of. Then in your heart, believe it will happen to you. Then work, work, work. You’ll get the picture.

So, be true to your dream, and don’t let anyone __________ it from you — especially yourself.

4 . Small children are easy to throw up in the air and catch — and they ________ it. “Again, Daddy, again!” Jacky shouts as I throw him skywards and catch him on the way back down again. He throws his arms and legs out   ________ he were flying, his eyes wide with ________. His trust in me is ________, which is quite a nice feeling, but at the same time gives me a huge sense of ________.

I hope Jacky will always trust me fully, but I know that, as he gets older, it will need more effort and sound judgment ________. Trust is such an important part of a parent-child relationship that it’s something that I can’t ________to lose. Every time I ________ Jacky to something new, he’ll do it only because he trusts me and feels ________ in the knowledge that he won’t get hurt.________，teaching Jacky to swim means he has to believe that, when he’s swimming in the big pool, I’ll come to his rescue if his doggy paddle lets him down.

________, in the workplace, trust is important for strong ________. It is something that every manager should work hard to ________ among their team. If people don’t trust you, they’re unlikely to follow your directions and willingly become a loyal (忠诚) team member. A ________of trust can make people work against you rather than for you. At the very least, it means that people are not going to be giving you their best. Good ________, like good parenting, is a long-term commitment.

5 . I love wildlife. So when my friend said that we had a chance to _________ brown bears in the High Tatras, I didn’t think twice about it, and we _________ arrangements to go the following week.

The trip was a great _________! We walked for hours and stayed in a _________ mountain hut (小屋) which was usually reserved for park rangers. It actually took us some trouble even to locate it. As soon as we arrived, our guide _________ to us that we would be fully integrated (融入) into their research programme and would be tracking the _________ of bears wearing GPS transmitters. On the first day, we were woken up at sunrise and, after _________ some warm clothes, set off into the forest. Our guide walked very _________ and we had trouble keeping up with him. Suddenly he _________ across a small hill. He must have caught sight of a bear. We followed him as fast as we could, but by the time we reached him, the bear had __________ into the bushes. Later in the week, though, we did manage to observe several bears feeding on berries. We were so excited. Yet, __________ hurrying to take photos, we __________ our breath, stayed about 30 meters away and just watched them. Our guide insisted that we should keep our __________ from the bears so as not to __________ them.

Observing bears in their natural habitat (栖息地) was really __________. I had never experienced anything like that before. If I hadn’t had to go back to school, I would happily have stayed on for several more weeks.

6 . When I was young, I used to hate running. In fact, I wouldn’t have become a(n) ________ if it weren’t for my former classmate Jane. She had been a(n) ________ runner for many years. After our graduation, she wouldn’t stop talking about how much she ________ it.

So she picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to join her at the ________. Just a few months later, she signed up for a five-kilometer race for both of us. I ________ about doing it for it was just too soon.

But on the race day, there I was.

The gun went off. Thousands of runners ________. The first kilometer was tough. I was already breathing ________and painfully aware of the group of runners ________ past me.

After another minute, I saw the three kilometer ________. All I could think of was that I was dying.

I ________ a corner, and saw both sides of the street ________ with people watching the race, all cheering the runners on: I willed my legs to ________ going.

Then I looked up and saw the clock. The ________ ticking away gave me an incentive (激励). I knew that if I ________finished this race, I would achieve something. So, I ________ up and made it.

9 . Paen Long has had a dream ever since he saw a plane for the first time at the age of six. His dream was to _________ a plane. Last year, the 30-year-old man started building his plane _________. “I was afraid that people would _________ me, so sometimes I worked at night,” he said. It was a long time _________ he put his dream into practice. Paen Long tried to build his own plane, using the money he had _________ from running his own garage. He has spent three years watching YouTube videos in order to _________ how to make a plane.

It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials.The plane’s first _________ came at 3 pm on 8th, March. Local villagers gathered excitedly to watch the plane fly. _________, the plane only got 50m in the air before crashing (撞击) to the ground. “When all people were looking at me, I felt very _________,” he said.

Although the first try __________, Paen Long remains __________. His next project is to build a seaplane. Paen Long thinks the plane will cost over $10,000. “I never feel __________ for spending all my money building a plane,” he said.

His wife, Hing Muoyheng, worries about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no __________. “I don’t know how planes work and he doesn’t have any __________ to help him. He can only search for information himself,” she said. “I tried to ask him to stop a few times because I was afraid, but he said he wouldn’t __________, so I have to support his dream.”